QDOS Classic for Amiga: QDOS Floppy images for UAE?

[XorA]

Just a note for people needing to quickly byteswap disk images

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dd if=input.img of=output.img bs=4k conv=swab

This is works only for Linux.
On Windows dd does not do any conversion.

Luckilly this is mostly false news, and I guess depends on what dd.exe you have installed!

[Andrew]

Just a note for people needing to quickly byteswap disk images

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dd if=input.img of=output.img bs=4k conv=swab

This is works only for Linux.
On Windows dd does not do any conversion.

Luckilly this is mostly false news, and I guess depends on what dd.exe you have installed!

I downloaded all dd windows-versions I could find, and none accepted the =swab parameter. If you have a link to a windows version that can perform the conversion, please post it here.
After I got sick of searching and testing dd versions I just bought and registered Hex Editor Neo .

[XorA]

The msys2 version in coreutils does!

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

I used FS-UAE on Linux or WIN-UAE on Windows, with the QDOS boot rom cifugured as the Kickstart rom and a QD.OS FLP Image in DF0

All worked without swapping bytes.

[Mark Swift]

Hi

The msys2 version in coreutils does!

I didn't realise there was a Windows version; good to know.
Its a useful command. I use it in bash scripts on my Mac to PEEK and POKE into files...

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#PEEKL
filename="JS_ROM";fileoffset=49142;echo $((16#$(dd if="${filename}" ibs=1 skip=${fileoffset} count=4 status=none | xxd -p)))

#POKEL
filename="JS_ROM";fileoffset=49142;value=825110833;printf "%08x\n" ${value} | xxd -r -p | dd of="${filename}" bs=1 seek=${fileoffset} conv=notrunc status=none

I used FS-UAE on Linux or WIN-UAE on Windows...
All worked without swapping bytes.

Agreed, no need to swap bytes. The QubIDE image should work as is.
I have some screen snapshots below of a working UAE configuration...

1. In the Quickstart section, choose "A4000" as the Model

2. In the ROM section, choose the QC3955UAE4_ROM

3. In the CD and Hard drives section, select "Add Hardfile"

4. In the pop-up...
Select the "QUBRDF.hdf" QubIDE image.
Select "Full drive/RDB mode"
Select "HD Controller:Commodore A600/A1200/A4000 IDE"

5. Click OK and save the config

...Hope it's of use

[Peter]

Hi Mark,

There are 3 versions of the ROM in the zip file.
QC3955UAE.ROM - no qubide
QC3955UAE1.ROM - with qubide for A1200
QC3955UAE4.ROM - with qubide for A4000

Ah, I was already wondering. To have this info in the accompanying textfile would be good.
By chance I already had QC3955UAE4.ROM correctly.

Select "Full drive/RDB mode"

This was not checked and caused the problem!

If the images were not byteswapped, file exchange would be easy. E.g. Q68, QIMSI and Wolfgang's QxlWinReader for JAVA support QubIDE images.
Thanks, Peter